What Is the Difference Between Infectious Disease and Chronic Disease?

STUDY GUIDE

INFECTIOUS DISEASE

·  What is the difference between infectious disease and chronic disease?

·  Why is it important to study infectious disease?

·  What is the pattern of infectious disease? Do we have them more now or less now?

·  What are the three parts of the epidemiological triangle? Describe each part.

·  Give examples of each of the different epidemiological significant diseases:

o  Foodborne (botulism, salmonella)

o  Sexually Transmitted (syphilis, chlamydia)

o  Person to Person (leprosy)

o  Arthropod Borne (malaria, plague)

o  Zoonotic (rabies)

o  Fungal (candidiasis)

·  Know examples and descriptions of the different types of agents and their diseases: bacteria, viruses, mycoses, protozoa, helminths, arthropods

·  What is infectivity? What has a high infectivity?

·  What is pathogenicity? What has a high or low pathogenicity?

·  What is virulent? What disease is very virulent?

·  What is toxigenicity?

·  What is resistance?

·  What is antigenicity?

·  What is the host?

·  What are some nonspecific defense mechanisms of the host?

·  What is the environment?

·  What is herd immunity?

·  Why is culture an important consideration when studying infectious disease? Refer to your poster project for an example.

MENTAL HEALTH

·  What is mental illness?

·  What are some examples of mental illness?

·  What are some ways to diagnose a mental illness?

·  What are some causes of mental illness?

·  What are some risk factors of mental illness?

·  How common is mental illness?

·  Know different types of mental illness: mood disorder, anxiety disorder, substance related disorder, psychotic disorder, cognitive disorder, developmental disorders, personality disorders

·  What are personality disorders?

·  Know different types of personality disorders:

o  Cluster A (paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal)

o  Cluster B (antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic)

o  Cluster C (avoidant, dependent, obsessive-compulsive)

·  What are some treatment options?

AGING

·  What is aging?

·  What is gerontology?

·  Why study aging?

·  What is senescence?

·  What is life span? Life expectancy?

·  What are some general aging changes?

·  What is the difference between normal aging and age related diseases and dysfunctions?

·  Know normal aging changes and age related diseases and dysfunctions for the following:

o  Skeletal system

o  Muscular system

o  Respiratory system

o  Nervous system

o  Circulatory system

o  Senses

o  Reproductive system

o  Skin

o  Digestive system